What were the details and aims of the compact?
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Signed November 11, 1620 off of Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
Established "fair and equal" laws for the general good of the settlement and simple survival.
Majority rule.
41 adult male members signed of which most (but not all) were separatists (Pilgrims)
Established authority in the settlement free of English Law since they landed out of England's claim of "Virginia".
The foundations of the government of the USA begin with this document. (See the Preamble to the Constitution and President Lincoln's famous "Gettysburg Address")
".....and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." Abe Lincoln-1863
Click here You will see the video on the Plymouth Colony again click "start here"...wait and look to the right where it says the "Mayflower Compact". Click on that read and answer the question.